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Sentencing 14 members, who were crammed into the dock at the Old Bailey, Judge Anuja Dhir QC said: "You were all involved in a highly professional, well-planned, organised cannabis production enterprise.

"Between 2013 and 2015 the industrial sites - six in Kent, one in Norfolk - were rented by you to turn into cannabis factories.

"Five of them were in active production at the time of the police searches.

"Those five were expertly adapted and skilfully equipped to enable the production of vast industrial quantities of cannabis.

"Considerable planning went into disguising the operation, and who was involved. Some of you were more involved then others.

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Damon Mills, 18, of Margate, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to produce cannabis and one count of abstracting electricity, and got 18 months in prison.

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Michael Jay Corcoran, 28, of Gillingham, Kent, was found guilty of four counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and four counts of abstracting electricity, and was jailed for eight years.

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Stefan-Alex Henderson Clarke, 27, of Walworth, south east London, was convicted of four counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and four counts of abstracting electricity and was given a seven-and-a-half years' sentence.

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Stuart Sollis, 51, of Camberwell, south east London, was found guilty of five counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and four counts of abstracting electricity, and was locked up for eight years.

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David Heath, 48, of Peckham, south east London, was found guilty of three counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and three counts of abstracting electricity, and was jailed for seven years.

Asked if he understood before he left the dock, he yelled: "No I don't. Who the f**k is Michael Corcoran? I don't even know him."

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Colin Walls, 52, of no fixed abode, admitted one count of conspiring to produce cannabis and was convicted of two counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and three counts of abstracting electricity, and was jailed for six years.

He was linked to a factory by DNA on a cigarette butt.

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Terrance Murphy, 47, of Purfleet, Essex, was found guilty of one count of conspiring to produce cannabis and one count of abstracting electricity, and was locked up for three years.

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Stephen Creed, 45, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was convicted of one count of conspiring to produce cannabis and one count of abstracting electricity, and received a six year sentence.

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Andrew Prowse, 32, of Camberwell, south east London, admitted three counts of conspiring to produce cannabis and got two-and-a-half years in prison.

Alan Marquiss, 69, of Thamesmead, south east London, admitted one count of conspiring to produce cannabis and one count of abstracting electricity, but will be sentenced at a later date.